Question

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all―milk. At the same time,a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk.

She buys it. But,she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband's niece.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains. It is simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking,men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at a time is often called "multitasking," a very popular word these days.

A recent study has proved what we have known all along―men and women think differently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain. In the female brains,they found more activity and connec?tions between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of "reason". The right one is known as the "creative" side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She cowrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men,she adds,generally use just one side of the brain.

As a result,men generally deal directly with a prob?lem. Women,however,might include other parts of the brain,like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity (敏感) when solving a problem.'

Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

23. What's the writer's purpose of telling the story?

   A. To make readers happy.

   B. To advise readers to buy things.

   C. To introduce the topic of the text.

   D. To encourage readers to read the text.

24. How does the woman deal with a problem?

   A. Directly. B. Indirectly.

   C. Strongly. D. Carefully.

25. What's the main idea of the text?

   A. Men and women really think differently.

   B. Women use two sides of the brain to think.

   C. More people believe and support a familiar story.

   D. Men generally use one side of the brain to think.

26. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

   A. There were 949 old people taking part in the re?search.

   B. The people taking part in the research were verj young.

   C. Male brains have more connections on right sick of the brain.

   D. Male brains have strong connections on both side; of the brain.

Answer 1

本文是一篇說明文。文章通過一個故事來引人文章的主題，并說明科學研究的結果證實男女在思考問題時的不同。

23. C推理判斷題。根據文中的"And that is the difference be?tween the female and male brains…"可知，這是文章的主題，因此講故事的目的就是引人文章的主題，故選C項。

24. B細節理解題。根據最后一段中的"Women take a less direct path to find a solution."可知，答案為B項。

25. A主旨大意題。根據文中的"And that is the difference between the female and male brains…"可知,本文的中心意思是男人和女人在思考問題時的不同。故選A項。

26. B推理判斷題。根據第五段中的"…studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8 to 22 years old."可知，B項正確。